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The Reading

The Reading

Movies and TV
After a deadly home invasion, Emma (Mo'Nique Hicks) copes by writing a book, but when a young psychic and her team perform a reading in her home, a new terror is unleashed.
Cast & Crew
  • Mo'Nique
Tags
  • Drama
  • Thriller
Mars One

Mars One

Movies and TV
The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of their new reality as the political dust settles. Tércia, the mother, reinterprets her world after an unexpected encounter leaves her wondering if she’s cursed. Her husband, Wellington, puts all of his hopes into the soccer career of their son, Deiv...
Cast & Crew
  • Rejane Faria
  • Carlos Francisco
  • Camilla Damião
  • Cícero Lucas
Tags
  • Drama
Luther: The Fallen Sun

Luther: The Fallen Sun

Movies and TV
A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary.
Cast & Crew
  • Idris Elba
  • Cynthia Erivo
Tags
  • Crime
  • Drama
Chevalier

Chevalier

Movies and TV
The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court. Inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
Cast & Crew
  • Kelvin Harrison Jr.
  • Ronke Adekoluejo
Tags
  • Drama
  • History
  • Based on True Story
Creed III

Creed III

Movies and TV
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damien Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damien - a fighter who has nothing to lose.
Cast & Crew
  • Jonathan Majors
  • Michael B. Jordan
  • Phylicia Rashad
  • Tessa Thompson
Tags
  • Action
  • Drama
The Color Purple

The Color Purple

Movies and TV
Musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel about the life-long struggles of an African American woman living in the south during the early 1900s.
Cast & Crew
  • Colman Domingo
  • Corey Hawkins
  • Danielle Brooks
  • David Alan Grier
  • Deon Cole
  • Halle Bailey
  • Louis Gossett Jr.
  • Taraji P. Henson
  • H.E.R.
Tags
  • Music
  • Romance
  • Drama
Missing

Missing

Movies and TV
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that the true danger to her family is much closer to h...
Cast & Crew
  • Nia Long
  • Storm Reid
Tags
  • Drama
  • Thriller
A Christmas Fumble

A Christmas Fumble

Movies and TV
Nicole Barnes gets the toughest assignment of her career when she’s asked to handle a breaking scandal for former pro footballer-turned-TV-commentator Jordan Davies, whose network contract isn’t going to be renewed because of a violation going back to his college days. However, Nicole fails to disclose that she and Jordan were once boyfriend and girlfriend — a conflict of interest that could end her own hopes of being made partner at her firm. To make matters worse, Nicole’s efforts to rehabi...
Cast & Crew
  • Eva Marcille
  • Devale Ellis
  • Jenny Itwaru
Tags
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Black Love
  • Christmas
The Holiday Stocking

The Holiday Stocking

Movies and TV
RJ is a new angel, who is given the chance to address his one regret, that he didn’t help his sisters reconcile while he was still alive. Returning to earth as a stranger, he gets each of them to revive The Holiday Stocking, their parent’s old tradition to encourage charity at Christmas.
Cast & Crew
  • B.J. Britt
  • Tamala Jones
  • Mykelti Williamson
Tags
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Christmas
Kindred

Kindred

Movies and TV
A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.
Cast & Crew
  • Mallori Johnson
  • Austin Smith
  • Antoinette Crowe-Legacy
Tags
  • Science Fiction
  • Based on Book
  • Drama
A Wesley Christmas

A Wesley Christmas

Movies and TV
Adult siblings Chris, Todd, and Cydney Wesley travel to their childhood home to celebrate Christmas with their parents and the entire Wesley family. With everyone together and all their physical and emotional baggage in tow, the annual Wesley family holiday promises to be a festive, hot-mess of a Christmas with life-changing impacts on the whole family.
Cast & Crew
  • Dorien Wilson
  • Jasmine Guy
  • Terrence C. Carson
Tags
  • Drama
  • Family
  • Christmas
Nanny

Nanny

Movies and TV
Aisha, an undocumented immigrant, lands a job as a nanny for a wealthy Manhattan couple. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in Senegal, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening to destroy the American Dream she is painstakingly piecing together.
Cast & Crew
  • Anna Diop
  • Sinqua Walls
  • Leslie Uggams
Tags
  • Horror
  • Drama
Bones and All

Bones and All

Movies and TV
Abandoned by her father, a young woman named Maren embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets Lee, a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
Cast & Crew
  • Taylor Russell
  • André Holland
Tags
  • Drama
  • Horror
  • Romance
  • No Black Trauma
On the Come Up

On the Come Up

Movies and TV
Bri, a young rapper and the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died just before making it big. Her father’s legend makes him a hard act to follow, but between Bri being bullied and watching her mother struggle after losing her job, she pours out her frustration into songs that become big viral hits.
Cast & Crew
  • Sanaa Lathan
  • Method Man
  • Da'Vine Joy Randolph
  • Mike Epps
  • Jamila Gray
Tags
  • Drama
Beauty

Beauty

Movies and TV
A young singer on the brink of a promising career finds herself torn between a domineering family, industry pressures and her love for her girlfriend.
Cast & Crew
  • Gracie Marie Bradley
  • Michael Ward
  • Niecy Nash
Tags
  • Romance
  • Drama
  • Music
The Lazarus Project

The Lazarus Project

Movies and TV
George wakes up to find himself several months in the past before being recruited for the Lazarus Project – a secret organisation that turns back time when the world is at threat of extinction.
Cast & Crew
  • Paapa Essiedu
  • Vinette Robinson
Tags
  • Science Fiction
  • Drama
  • Action
  • Adventure
B-Boy Blues

B-Boy Blues

Movies and TV
Follows the relationship of 27-year-old journalist Mitchell Crawford and 21-year-old bicycle messenger Raheim Rivers, who meet at a gay bar in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1993.
Cast & Crew
  • Thomas Mackie
  • Timothy Richardson
  • Brandee Evans
  • Broderick Hunter
  • Marquise Vilson
  • Ledisi
Tags
  • Drama
The School for Good and Evil

The School for Good and Evil

Movies and TV
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.
Cast & Crew
  • Kerry Washington
  • Laurence Fishburne
  • Kit Young
  • Sofia Wylie
  • Chinenye Ezeudu
Tags
  • Fantasy
  • Action
  • Drama
Trees of Peace

Trees of Peace

Movies and TV
In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
Cast & Crew
  • Charmaine Bingwa
  • Evan Alex
  • Elaine Umuhire
  • Bola Koleosho
  • Tongayi Chirisa
Tags
  • History
  • Drama
Till

Till

Movies and TV
The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
Cast & Crew
  • Danielle Deadwyler
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Jalyn Hall
  • Frankie Faison
  • Tosin Cole
  • Kevin Carroll
  • Sean Patrick Thomas
  • Roger Guenveur Smith
  • Jayme Lawson
Tags
  • Drama
  • Based on True Story
 
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